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Lean Training
Simply put – Lean means creating more value for your customers. Lean principles have directly contributed to the increased profitability of manufacturing and fabrication companies for decades. These same principles are now also being applied successfully to many other sectors, including construction, government, armed forces, healthcare, and many more.
By understanding the principles of Lean, business owners and managers can begin to lead change in their organization, get employees engaged in solving problems, and integrate continuous improvement thinking into their corporate culture.
Learn how just thinking about your work differently can dramatically improve productivity, which not only benefits your company internally but ultimately results in a happier customer.
Our Lean experts will engage your employees to adopt the 5 Principles of Lean Thinking and apply practical methods like 5S, value stream mapping, kanban, kaizen, and A3 thinking.
Red-5 offers structured Lean certificate training that combines instructor-led learning, group discussion and practical application in the workplace.
Explore our training options below, or contact us to start your journey towards eliminating waste and increasing profitability.
training options
Yellow belt Certificate
Red-5’s Lean Yellow Belt Certificate program develops the foundational knowledge and practical skills needed to see waste, improve everyday work and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
The standard 28-hour program combines a full-day Lean Thinking workshop with instructor-led sessions, group discussions, structured study and applied workplace activities. Programs can be deployed for office, engineering, operations, manufacturing, construction and field-service environments.
To successfully complete the program, participants demonstrate practical application through activities such as structured study, a workplace waste walk, Kaizen improvements and 5S. The curriculum and specific completion requirements may be customized for the participant’s role, work environment and organizational objectives.
Successful participants earn a Red-5 Lean Yellow Belt Certificate.
Office
Taking Lean manufacturing principles and applying it in an office environment – Finance, Engineering firm, Law office, Human Resources, Customer Service.
Operations
Applying Lean principles to your service, construction, manufacturing facility or fabrication shop – big or small, this training is for you!
Yellow Belt Enhanced
Customize your Yellow Belt certificate training by supplementing it with at least one of these additional electives.
Syllabus coming soon
Syllabus coming soon
Green belt Certificate
Red-5’s Lean Green Belt Certificate program advances the concepts and tools introduced in Yellow Belt while developing the participant’s ability to lead structured workplace improvement.
The standard 24-hour program combines instructor-led sessions, group discussions and applied workplace activities. Core learning focuses on scientific thinking, structured improvement practices, stabilizing and standardizing processes, and A3 thinking and problem-solving.
To successfully complete the program, participants complete an applied A3 productivity project. Evaluation is based primarily on the completed project, along with attendance and participation in the learning sessions. The curriculum and applied activities may be customized for the participant’s role, work environment and organizational objectives.
Successful participants earn a Red-5 Lean Green Belt Certificate.
Prerequisite: Yellow Belt Certificate (Office/Operations/Enhanced)
Green Belt Enhanced
Customize your Green Belt certificate training by supplementing it with at least one of these additional electives.
FRONTLINE PRODUCTIVITY TRAINING Certificate
This instruction is specifically tailored to front-line production and manufacturing staff to create a base level of knowledge for increasing their productivity. Delivers front-line staff training on Lean tools and essential skills that can be applied to increase their efficiency and quality of work. A record of completion is provided upon at the conclusion of each level, and a certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the full 21-hour FPT program at Level 3.
WORKSPACE OPTIMIZATION TRAINING Certificate
This training program provides participants with an overview of the basic principles of Lean Thinking, and targets training in 5S to increase efficiency, quality, improve employee satisfaction and reduce ineffective activities with respect to your working area. The building, warehouse, factory, or jobsite contains your process, but it does not have to limit its capabilities. The working area is an essential component to contributing to your productivity. In this intensive training, understand how to analyze and leverage your work space and design your process to maximize performance using Lean tools.
Why people choose us
For Lean Training
Our team at Arrow experienced excellent guidance and mentorship throughout our Lean training, and beyond. Avel is very easy to work with, and has a keen eye for identifying strengths, growth and opportunity alongside you. I would highly recommend Avel for Lean training services.
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